Pointless broadcasts its 1,000th repeat new episode on Monday! To celebrate four remarkable teams are being bought back to participate again – David and Christo, the show’s first ever jackpot winners from 2009 (quite a different game back then even if it was also basically the same), David and Jon who won the show’s highest ever jackpot of £24,750, Patrick and Sarah who managed to give three Pointless answers in the final round and finally swing your pants as Saturday morning superstars Trevor and Simon return as one of the show’s first celebrity jackpot winners.
As you’ve doubtlessly noticed from the official press shot there, Richard and Xander have swapped places for the episode. I wonder if they’ve turned the computer on for Xander.
You can find out how Pointless fared in the UKGameshows.com/Bother’s Bar Poll of 2016 with our live poll results broadcast right here and on Youtube from 9pm on Tuesday.
Wasn’t this recorded ages ago?! I’m looking forward to it anyway (p.s. BRING BACK TWO TRIBES!)
Apparently the official line is that Two Tribes is not axed but rather Richard is currently too busy with other projects
Ah that’s fair enough! I heard a rumour somewhere that Debatable was commissioned to fill the gap left by Two Tribes – is that true?
Given the five forty-five minute episodes I doubt that very much. I think they wanted something they could easily fill a hole with when there were forty-five minute episodes of Make Me an Egghead.
Makes sense 🙂 Thanks
WHAT JUST HAPPENED? This is show 998, but yesterday it was show 1,000. Have they broadcast them in the wrong order? It will be interesting to see if they refer to the 1,000th show on Thursday.
Yes they’ve almost certainly changed the order because they think it’ll have more impact on a Monday and the 1000th episode is self-contained.
If you were confused by the timing of that, it was even more confusing when one of the contestants said they didn’t know what Theresa May looked like. Recorded in April, I think.
Anyway, I really enjoyed the thousandth Pointless. I can’t think of another game show that can create so many running jokes, enough to spin off into several books.
You wouldn’t by any chance know when Friday’s Only Connect was recorded? There was a music question for which the clues had changed since it was recorded.
No, I only know Pointless was recorded in April because Trevor and Simon retweeted a tweet from the day they filmed it.
Richard’s opening chat was edited out today, presumably to avoid any awkward 999th Show references.
I had wondered if they had moved it to avoid splitting a run of rollovers with the 1000th show but the jackpot went today so that disproved that theory.
Also, Alexander was very taken aback by a Pointless answer in Round Two…